Attachment for gas heating-stoves.



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- ATTACHMENT FOR GAS HEATING STOVBS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 13, 1910.

976,053. Patented N0v 15, 1910.

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OSCAR DRECI-ISLER, OF PITTSBUEG, PENNSYLVANIA.

ATTACHMENT FOB GAS HEATING-STOVES.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 15, 1910.

Application filed January 13, 1910. Serial No. 537,865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OSCAR DREGHSLER, a resident of Pittsburg, in thecounty of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Attachments for Gas Heating- Stoves, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to gas heating stoves, and particularly to stovesof familiar design, known in the trade as reflector stoves, wherein theburner is located in the rear of the upper portion of the stove casingand quite out of sight when the stove stands on the floor, the casingbeing open at the front with a downwardly and forwardly curved plate ofcopper forming the bottom and back of the open cavity for deflectingheated air into the room and reflecting light from the burner. Anobjection to a stove of this character is that one must stoop quite lowto light it or to examine the burner. This is inconvenient anddangerous, particularly when lighting the stove as the flames arelfiable to flare out and burn the hands or ace.

The invention herein is provided for avoiding these objectionablefeatures by so placing a smallmirror at the base of the open front as toreflect the burner, making it unnecessary to look up into the stoveeither when lighting it or when examining the burner at any other time,the mirror serving to guide the hand of the person lighting the stoveand perfectly reflecting the burner when lighted as well as whenextinguished.

A further characteristic of the invention is the deflection of the heatby the mirror in such manner as to add to the heating efficiency of thestove.

Still a further feature is the means employed for securing the mirror tothe stove.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of a stoveof the character referred to with my improvements applied thereto, andFig. 2 is a sectional plan on line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detailofthe mirror supporting device shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4; is a detailof a portion of the mirror carrying frame. Fig. 5 is a detail ofsupporting means of modified form.

Referring to the drawings, 2 designates a box-like casing of a stove offamiliar design open at the front at 3 for a distance upwardly from thebase and provided with a curved bottom and back-forming plate 4Removably secured in place at the lower end of front opening 3 is aframe 6, having a relatively large opening therethrough to expose themirror plate 7 secured to the under side of frame 6, the edges of theframe being curved at 5 and the frame cut to form lips 5 for holding theglass in place. The frame 6 may be conveniently supported by forming itsinner edge with the down-turned lip or flange 8 which, in theconstructions shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, may be received in the downwardbend or loop 9 of holder 10, the latter being a plate-like device withits inner portion bent to form hook 11 which may be inserted beneathstrip 12 which secures the lower end of curved plate 4. The outerportion 10 of the holder provides a brace for frame 6, relieving lip 8of undue strain and firmly supporting the reflector. Instead of holder10, an additional strip 13 may be secured to the front of the base ofthe stove to provide a slot to receive flange 8, as in Fig. 5. While thereflector may be variously mounted or secured, the means shown in Figs.1, 2 and 3 is very desirable as it requires no addition or alteration inapplying the improvement to stoves now in use.

The reflector frame is supported at such an angle to the stove interioras to perfectly reflect the burner so that the position and condition ofthe latter may be seen by merely glancing into the mirror. The slightupward slope from the inner edge of mirror frame 6 causes the latter todeflect the heat upwardly, some of it being thrown back into the openfront and some directed thereby upwardly into the room, with the resultthat the attachment adds materially to the heating efficiency of thestove, the heated air thrown back as described being super-heated andfinally emerging at a higher temperature than at first.

I am aware that it has been proposed heretofore to apply mirrors to theovens of gas ranges for reflecting the burners, and therefore make nobroad claim to a burner reflecting mirror. But I am the first to soequip an open-front reflector gas heating stove as to obviate the dangerin lighting and inconvenience in examining the burner, at the same timeincreasing the heating efliclency.

I claim:

1. The combination of an open front as heating stove, a burner therein,a hol er with means securing the holder to the stove at the base of thefront opening the holder formed to receive a depending flange, a burnerreflecting mirror, and a mirror-carrying frame having a depending flangeadapted to be secured to the holder.

2. The combination of an open front gas heating stove, a transversestrip at the base of the front opening having an inwardly projectingfree edge, an outwardly projecting support having its inner edge loopedto embrace the free edge of said strip, said support between its innerand outer edges formed with a depending loop, a frame having a dependingflange removably entered in said last mentioned loop of the support withsaid frame resting on the outer portion of the support, and aburner-reflecting mirror plate carried by the frame.

3. The combination of an open front gas heating stove, a gas burnerlocated in the rear upper portion thereof, the stove formed with aflange-receiving space at the base of the front opening, a burnerreflecting mirror, and a mirror-holding frame pro ecting outwardly fromthe base of the open front said frame adapted to hold said mirror so asto reflect an image of the burner located in the upper rear portion ofthe stove, the mirror-holding frame formed with a flange which isreceived in said flange -holding space at the base of the front openingof the stove for sustaining said frame in its extended position.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

OSCAR DRECHSLER. WVitnesses:

J N0. Nnsnrr, OSCAR P. DREGHSLER.

